Valerie: 227 books

A heartwarming story of how a trip to the grocery store helps to teach what love and family really mean.

Urban Bedlam: Poetry From a Soul On Fire is a raw, unadulterated look into Black society and American culture as they exist today, through the lens of an observant twenty-something Black woman. An unfiltered collection of emotion transcribed into passionate verses, Urban Bedlam seeks to awaken...

A love story never guarantees a happy ending. Life never guarantees an easy solution. One woman experiences all of the ups and downs of love and life as she endures a health crisis and begins a life with a man who has mental health issues. She is forced to face her fears, to take leaps of faith, and to make hard choices which will surely change her life.

I was born in 1945 when families were encouraged to keep secrets. The rule, “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”, stems from this concept. Unmarried and pregnant young girls were sent to visit their fictitious Aunt Martha, or hidden in the upstairs bedroom. If your father beat your mother,...

Ellie has recurring nightmares of a child surrounded by early nineteenth century luxury who is kidnapped. She always wakes to sparse surroundings and a life devoid of love. Yet she still dares to dream that she will find love. Living in the old hall with her Aunt Gertrude and cousins Cybil and Jane,...

He does not trust her… Lucan has one chance to save himself before the darkness he wields consumes him. The vampire would rather damn his soul to Hell, than mate his enemy’s sister. Fate hasn’t left him much choice however, because it prophesies Sabin to end the brutal war on humanity....

This eBook was written to serve women wanting to become leaders; women wanting to define, redefine, examine, and re-examine their leadership skills; women wanting to examine, understand, and explore how their values impact leadership. I hope the result of reading this eBook is women having increased...

The story continues: Eli is more determined than ever to find a way to break Lucifer’s hold over Ashley. When he spots her across a bloody battlefield, he can only steal a moment alone with his mate. Ashley feels herself surrendering to her darker side. When she learns of a child that...

When the grandmother she never met is stricken by a mysterious coma, Siobhan Kelly finds herself uprooted from her familiar California life and Irish step dancing classes, and dealing with Spring in Vermont, where the roads are muddy, it’s as likely to snow as it is to rain, and the kids there...

A sedate academic recieves a distraut call in the middle of the night that sends him tubling into the world of clandestine affairs.

Baker Street is a typical suburban street in a quiet neighborhood. The fact it has its own Dr. Watson and a female version of Sherlock Holmes is just a side note most of the time. Five women who have affectionately termed themselves the Baker Street Broads meet weekly to discuss stories of the great...

If you were chained down with unbreakable chains and rarely fed, never pitied, never spoken to, what would you feel? If your sister was bound to a world of ice and the dead with only sorrow and hunger as pastimes, what would you think? If your brother was thrown into the sea to die, what would your...

When Fallon died at the age of sixteen, her life changed forever. The hallowed world of Emperica is everything she had ever hoped for as a mortal—immeasurable beauty, unconditional love and light. But, with affection for humankind still burning within her, she joins the Knight Caste to train...

After the brutal whipping of his wife, Ray Parker is sent to prison but not before he threatened Amelia in the courtroom. Just weeks before his release Amelia moves away from the only home she has ever known with the hope Ray won't find her. She knows the threat he uttered in the courtroom was not...